Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen

Name: Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen
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ISBN: 9780198277903

ISBN-10: 0198277903

ISBN-13: 9780198277903

Edition: 1989

Authors: Paul Dresch

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Professor Dresch combines ethnography with history to describe the tribal system over the last thousand years, and examines the values the tribal people themselves bring to the contemporary world of nation states. Drawing heavily on local histories and unpublished documents, as well as on three years' field work, he discusses the place of these tribes in the world around them from the tenth century to the twentieth. Beginning and ending with the means by which tribesmen define themselves, he discusses the relation of the major tribes to the area as a whole, to pre-modern Islamic learning, the Zaydi Imamate, and ideas of contemporary statehood. This book will be of interest to readers…

Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/27/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 470
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.46" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of plates


List of figures


List of tables


Transliteration


Introductory


The language of honour


Tribes and collective action


Estates of Society within the tribal peace


Sayyid history and historiography


History from the Qasimis to the Hamid al-Din (c.1600-1950)


The September Revolution and the post-war republic


Village life and means of livelihood


The morphology of tribal self definition


Tribes and events in the modern world


Appendices


Arabic references cited


References cited in European languages


Index